Diamond jubilee beacons are lit around the world – in pictures

Diamond jubilee beacons are lit around the world – in pictures

A chain of more than 4,200 beacons flared across the globe to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee. The first was lit in the town of Blenheim, on the northernmost tip of New Zealand's South Island, and the last by the Queen herself in London. Other beacon sites included the Treetops hotel in Kenya, where the then Princess Elizabeth heard that her father, King George VI, had died in 1952